Even so, the White House has refused to comply with congressional document requests related to the auto bailout — specifically those regarding the Delphi pension scandal.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp has asked Obama to “either claim executive privilege and be prepared to defend it for each and every document or turn over the documents without further delay.” (RELATED: Congressional leaders to Obama on Delphi scandal: Turn over documents or claim executive privilege)
While White House spokesman Eric Schultz hasn’t answered when asked if the president plans to assert executive privilege over the documents, White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler suggested in an Oct. 12 letter to Camp that Obma could indeed invoke that presidential trump card as a way to sidestep congressional document requests.
“Your request for all EOP [Executive Office of the President] communications implicates longstanding and significant executive branch confidentiality interests,” Ruemmler wrote, “an encroachment upon [sic] which is unnecessary at this time.”
Delphi/Psaki/GM Press Release Documents
